First let me apologize for the 3 posts in one — I had written them but couldn’t get on line to post them. I will try to caption any photos. And if you see a photo with an arrow below it, it’s actually a video!
So I decided also to transfer all my emails from when I last backed up my computer to my hard drive so I could work on them even without internet. They cut the power here most days from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and then the generator kicks in, but it makes the internet go on and off too.
So after doing that, I come in after lunch yesterday, boot up the computer and get the blue sceeen of death — fatal system error…. trying not to think about it. And feeling really lonely without it — I’ve become quite attached to my laptop! Not to mention I don’t want to have to deal with getting all my email, files and software back! My phone hasn’t worked since I got here, so I’m a bit out of touch. I borrowed a phone from Joa and got a sim card today, so hopefully I will soon be connected.
I did get a chance to skype with Daniel, and today when I finally got on a computer just now, he’d written to say Mom! I got straight A’s. So that’s super good news. I will call him later if the sim card and phone card combo works.
Things aren’t so great with me given the laptop deal, but Clare’s doing alright at least — settling in super well and made a new friend at camp. We moved in to Mie’s house night before last and have been eating well ever since. Lots of fruits and bread, cheese, etc. We ate really good Ethiopian food last night. And today Julie brought us a hair brush to borrow since Clare forgot hers and we couldn’t find any here.
Rwanda postponed their training, so we’re trying to figure out how we can keep on track. We had a great meeting with the Plan Senegal team yesterday to plan for their part of the project.I also handed their equipment over to them. Seems like it will be pretty neat. Today Julie and I have been working the whole day to develop the training workshop that starts on the 30th. We want to be sure everyone in all the participating countries has a shared vision of the project. People are really liking the Flip Cameras and I have requests to purchase a dozen already!
OK off to have a small coffee. Been so exhausted since I got here….
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I’m back from Brazil and in Kenya now for the Social Change for Social Media workshop. There are about 25 of us here and the first day was really really good. I learned tons of stuff from everyone here. It’s about 6:00 and most everyone is still here in the workshop room, doing email and stuff. We are going into “Bar Chats” in a few minutes – where people can just suggest topics that they want to discuss and form groups to do it. Photo: Lukenya Getaway
We have tried live broadcasting some of the talks – some worked some didn’t. And we’re testing a blog on a site called Maneno. The link is http://www.maneno.org/. Under SM4SC workshop you can find it…. I couldn’t get my photos to post there so I thought I’d revert to here to put some up. Photo: Tonee from Wazimba blogging. Erik from White African/Ushahidi and Mativo and Anthony from Plan Kenya.
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